Category: Books
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Literary Homemaking
Being a writer, I own lots of books. I’m sure there are probably some writers who don’t feel compelled to own walls and walls of books, and perhaps there are even some writers who have slowed down in their reading habits at some point in their life (though I would personally see that as having…
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New Things from Last Year
Three “big” good things from my last year to be thankful for are: Of course, my new house, of which I’ve posted more than enough pictures, but as rooms get remodeled, I will continue to post more. Here’s the guest bedroom’s new look. And of course this little light of mine came out in 2007.…
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Great books you may have missed in 2007
From the Village Voice: Yet could there be enough fell doings in a year that saw only one book from Stephen King, the Richard Bachman trunk novel Blaze? King’s son Joe Hill took up some of the slack with his bestselling horror novel Heart-Shaped Box and 20th Century Ghosts, a lovely, earnest collection of short…
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The Orphan’s Tales
Fellow Ohioan and fellow exile from the land of the rising sun Catherynne Valente has released the concluding volume of her Orphan’s Tales today. The first book was a really beautiful artifact, so I’m excited to see how Cat follows it up and brings the stories to a close. One of the things I like…
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The Love We Share Without Knowing
I mentioned in a post the other day that I had more good news to share, and today it was announced. My second novel will be coming out from Bantam Dell again. Very excited, and very very happy that I’m working once again with Juliet Ulman, the editor who worked with me on One for…
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October Country
At Bookslut Colleen Mondor reviews books for the very Bradburyesque time of year we’re entering: October Country. Included in that roundup are books by Neil Gaiman, Margo Lanagan, and my own One for Sorrow. Here’s an excerpt: What really impressed me about this book was how it was a familiar story on one level and…
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From Ohio to Italy
Good news came yesterday. One for Sorrow is going to be translated and published in Italy by Elliot Edizioni! I’ve always wanted to visit Italy (Europe in general, but definitely Italy is at the top–Venice, what’s more magical than a city where the streets are made of water?). My book is going to make it…
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Blood Engines
Because I have not visited my own bookstore yet today, I do not have my own picture to post of T.A. Pratt’s new novel, Blood Engines, which released today, and so I have stolen Greg Van Eekhout’s instead. Apologies, Greg. You can steal a photo of mine in the future, ok? I had the chance…
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Living in the Stacks
I went to the university library here in Youngstown yesterday, to do some research and find a few books I already own that are still sitting in boxes at my parents’ house until I decide to either get more bookshelves or find/buy a house (maybe some day!). I’ve always loved the university library, those floors…
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The Big Idea
John Scalzi asked me to be the guinea pig for a new feature called “The Big Idea” on his Ficlets blog, where an author writes a little essay about a central idea that their book came to be centered around or which influenced the writing of the book. My big idea essay is now up…